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Agree, surprised LBA lasted this length of time after BMI.
Meanwhile FR and OCS under the spotlight. So 'vulnerable' she missed the Hen do in DUB.
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/139...yanair-flight/
Meanwhile FR and OCS under the spotlight. So 'vulnerable' she missed the Hen do in DUB.
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/139...yanair-flight/
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Well, I guess if flying a route that has been served consistently for the last 40 years, supported over 50k pax per year on four daily E145s at one point and certainly isn't an easy drive is "daft" then that means pretty much all UK domestic air services are doomed. BTW, trains take four hours, not three - which you'd know if you'd ever tried it! Must be other factors at play here like a big corporate changing its travel patterns - which was what did for LBA/Bristol - or just the cost of APD and general inconvenience of getting through airports which is taking longer and longer nowadays but erodes the time saving of flying on all but the longer journeys. Nonetheless, daft is perhaps a rather dismissive term though.
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You've lost me, if you compare 8 Airbuses a day on a LHR high connecting domestic service with a half empty twice daily LBA route on a small Saab.
Would it be a 'daft' decision to allow it to continue, empty and loss making, regardless of reasons... most certainly.
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Capital SD360 / 146, to Loganair SD360, to British Midland ATP then to bmi Regional ERJ135 then picked up again by Loganair on an SF340. Been static and declining since the railways got less rubbish.
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Skipness please - before Capital it was Dan Air with the 748 and for a short period the Nord 262. Before that British Midland Viscount and probably something else before that.
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Is there a compelling reason that anyone heading to the old domestic or international piers has to walk west of gate 26 then turn back?
I was reflecting how much more convoluted GLA has become. Instead of check in and straight upstairs to security and then straight down the pier to board, one now has to backtrack up an escalator from check in, head all the way to the Western end for security, wander all the way through duty free then out past Boots, all the way past the now blocked entrances to the original piers then past the restaurants, down a slope, enter the old domestic pier, then follow the arriving domestic stream towards the old international pier, avoiding any inbound Loganair or easyJet arrival streams before marching all the to the end of the pier. It's a ball ache for the frequent flier....
I was reflecting how much more convoluted GLA has become. Instead of check in and straight upstairs to security and then straight down the pier to board, one now has to backtrack up an escalator from check in, head all the way to the Western end for security, wander all the way through duty free then out past Boots, all the way past the now blocked entrances to the original piers then past the restaurants, down a slope, enter the old domestic pier, then follow the arriving domestic stream towards the old international pier, avoiding any inbound Loganair or easyJet arrival streams before marching all the to the end of the pier. It's a ball ache for the frequent flier....
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I flew from Glasgow a few years ago and because of the layout of the duty free shop I had to go through it in a zig zag fashion and had to go through a cloud of perfume that some assistant was spraying. The layout has changed since then but it would be better if there was an alternative route from security to the departure gates.
wander all the way through duty free then out past Boots, all the way past the now blocked entrances to the original piers then past the restaurants
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Is there a compelling reason that anyone heading to the old domestic or international piers has to walk west of gate 26 then turn back?
I was reflecting how much more convoluted GLA has become. Instead of check in and straight upstairs to security and then straight down the pier to board, one now has to backtrack up an escalator from check in, head all the way to the Western end for security, wander all the way through duty free then out past Boots, all the way past the now blocked entrances to the original piers then past the restaurants, down a slope, enter the old domestic pier, then follow the arriving domestic stream towards the old international pier, avoiding any inbound Loganair or easyJet arrival streams before marching all the to the end of the pier. It's a ball ache for the frequent flier....
I was reflecting how much more convoluted GLA has become. Instead of check in and straight upstairs to security and then straight down the pier to board, one now has to backtrack up an escalator from check in, head all the way to the Western end for security, wander all the way through duty free then out past Boots, all the way past the now blocked entrances to the original piers then past the restaurants, down a slope, enter the old domestic pier, then follow the arriving domestic stream towards the old international pier, avoiding any inbound Loganair or easyJet arrival streams before marching all the to the end of the pier. It's a ball ache for the frequent flier....
"Frequent flyer?" Well, what I do is, check in online, up the escalator, security (which is pretty good at GLA). Look neither right nor left at the duty free windy path, up the ramp, turn right, to, if it's BA, enter Lounge, if someone else head straight for the Gate. Ignore everything else.
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Agree, surprised LBA lasted this length of time after BMI.
Meanwhile FR and OCS under the spotlight. So 'vulnerable' she missed the Hen do in DUB.
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/139...yanair-flight/
Meanwhile FR and OCS under the spotlight. So 'vulnerable' she missed the Hen do in DUB.
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/139...yanair-flight/
....and this with the assistance of staff ".....trusted to get her on the 9.55pm plane....."
Is no one concerned with the serious security issues here!?
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[QUOTE=Skipness One Echo;9849829]Is there a compelling reason that anyone heading to the old domestic or international piers has to walk west of gate 26 then turn back
Everything is designed to ensure the passenger passes as many retail outlets as possible. Very difficult at any airport these days to go straight from check in through security to the gate. I am a frequent flyer out of GLA and you just get used to walking that wee bit extra to the gate whilst ignorng the temptations of rediculously prced bacon rolls.
Everything is designed to ensure the passenger passes as many retail outlets as possible. Very difficult at any airport these days to go straight from check in through security to the gate. I am a frequent flyer out of GLA and you just get used to walking that wee bit extra to the gate whilst ignorng the temptations of rediculously prced bacon rolls.
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Not as big an increase in seats than Edinburgh, only Delta and few extra Ryanair seats. August sees some of Glasgow's extra capacity move back down south for the English school holidays as mostly IT traffic. Just observations UA dropped obviously due to DL, Air Transat and WestJet not hit as bad I'd have thought by Rouge all three seem to be 80% and above loads and DXB really has retained loads wether yields have been maintained not sure 🤔. Obviously UA have decided to fight NAS at EDI. Icelandair are happy at the moment with the move to 757-300 instead of the -200
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